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Do they sell laptops like these in 2024?
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But modern laptop keyboards are nothing what they're advertised as. They have horrible keyboard, with less travel distance. They overheat and burn the lap, almost as if the cooling system is useless. Their endurance is low, lasting for only four to five hours on video playback. Their body and fragile keyboard suffers from structure deformity. Hinges always break the device. And the repairability, don't even get me started on that.
Like take for example, the S540-15IWL I own - which was my first laptop. A little bit of bottom case flex or pressure shorts the memory, and I lose everything I've worked on. The keyboard frame is attached using plastic tabs, and they're so shoddy that it has started to sag. The memory, charger port and processor is soldered, which is just peak anti-consumerist behavior. I don't want to go through another poor experience like that.
I hate apple, but I think you want an m series mac
Edit: just saw repairability is your main concern, definitely ignore this
I think you're definitely generalising to only devices you have used, but I still do agree with some of your experiences.
Are you often doing stuff on the go?
If not just buy an external mechanical keyboard, a dock will lots of ports, and leave the charger plugged in and whatever ultrabook you feel like. I personally don't like using my laptop anywhere except sitting down at a desk and especially never the lap because makes the thermal suffer short term and long term. It's also really non ergonomic to use a laptop on the lap.
Soldered memory sucks but unfortunately it's also faster. Soldered CPUs are just a fact of life, I doubt you can find a single laptop with normal desktop CPUs partly because Intel doesn't like it.